For one thing, Kevin Lawler and I were the two weirdos with our own programming languages when we were both working at Etsy.
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Fil Mackay <[email protected]>wrote: > Is there anyone here that knows language q / kdb <http://kx.com/>? Julia > reminds me of a lot of things I like about this language (based on the K > language <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)>). > > q is definitely centred around/better for time-series data than Julia. It > has a very terse syntax (the q gurus described Julia as "very verbose" ha :) > > Interested in your views on contrasting the two technologies - I've always > wanted to have an open-source kdb > (Kona<https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona>is only a subset), hoping that > Julia is the (more verbose) manifestation of > that idea. > > Regards, Fil. > >
